Partnerships and Projects

UC3 works closely with many partners within the university and beyond. We are also engaged with the wider digital curation community in collaborations on significant projects. Below is a partial list of our many collaborative projects and partnerships.

Partnerships

Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research (CBSR)

The Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research at UC-Riverside has digitized over 380,000 pages of pre-1923 California newspapers through grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library Services and Technology Act, and through partnerships with local California libraries and historical associations. UC3 is working with CBSR to store copies of the digital files in the Digital Preservation Repository. More ...

International Internet Preservation Coalition

Members of the IIPC are libraries, archives, museums and cultural heritage institutions from 26 countries in Europe, Asia, North America and Oceania. All are involved in web archiving, and engage in building tools, writing standards, and holding conferences and workshops. UC3 staff members serve on the Executive Board and working groups. More ...

National Geospatial Digital Archive

The National Geospatial Digital Archive (NGDA) is an NDIIPP-funded initiative to create a new national federated network committed to archiving geospatial imagery and data. More ...

Research Hub

The Research Hub provides an easy way for campus scholars to gather, organize and share their digital files, such as office documents, images, audio, video, and PDFs. The Research Hub helps you work with colleagues, co-authors, lab-mates and project team members by providing powerful collaborative tools, including blogs, wikis, document libraries, discussion forums and more. More ...

University and Jepson Herbaria

The University and Jepson Herbaria at UC-Berkeley hold over 2 million specimums. More ...

Water Resource Center Archive

The Water Resources Center Archives (WRCA) collects, preserves and provides access to historical and contemporary water-related materials that support the instructional and research programs of the University of California and the needs of the people of the State. More ...

Projects

End of Term Harvest.

In 2008, there was recognition that many US government websites would change when the new administration took office in January 2009. UC3 worked with the Library of Congress, University of North Texas, Internet Archive and US Government Printing Office to archive websites from the .gov domain. More ...

JHOVE2

JHOVE2 is an open source next-generation application and framework for format-aware characterization. JHOVE2 is the successor to JHOVE, the original characterization system developed by the Harvard University Library and JSTOR Electronic Archiving Initiative (now known as Portico). Stephen Abrams is leading this project, which aims to build on the success of JHOVE and to offer significant new features. More ...

TRAC

The Trustworthy Repositories Audit and Certification: Criteria and Checklist (TRAC) provides a framework for digital repositories to test and document their reliability. The Center for Research Libraries is undertaking two indepth assessments of two digital repositories: Portico and HathiTrust. UC3 staff serve on the Certification Advisory Panel that is advising CRL in the assessment process. More...

Unified Digital Format Registry

The Unified Digital Format Registry (UDFR) is a project organized by a loose consortium of national and academic libraries and archives, with the aim on consolidating the existing PRONOM and GDFR format registries. Stephen Abrams represents UC3 on the UDFR governance and technical working groups. More ...